
The question was asked recently on a FreeBSD mailing list, "
What will be new in FreeBSD 5.0?" The thread discussed several ways a person could obtain such information, one good source being the latest release notes. The first developer preview of 5.0 was released on April 8th. The final release is targeted for the end of this year. Robert Watson offered an interesting summary of items to look forward to in FreeBSD 5.0, including: SMPng ("next generation" symmetric multiprocessing), KSE (improved scheduling), devfs (automatic /dev management), Firewire support, and much more.
Read on KernelTrap for more details.
Couldn't have said it better.
Having used C# on Windows XP and getting ready to install the CLI on my FreeBSD machine, I would definitely say things are looking very good for BSD.
Since FreeBSD is still the backend for Hotmail, I wonder if MS selecting FreeBSD as the "open source" OS has more to do with putting .Net/C# code behind Hotmail.